AIBU to think most people have something sweet after dinner daily?

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To have something sweet/ pudding every day after dinner?
kind of thought the majority did this but after talking to friends maybe not. So for example after dinner every night will have something sweet eg bar of chocolate, biscuits

I rarely do unless I’ve gone for a meal out, and even then it’s occasional

Probably 50/50 for us. My DD is only 2.5 so pudding for her is usually a yoghurt or fruit. DH and I might have some chocolate or a couple of biscuits later in the evening. We are all partial to a sweet breakfast e.g. pancakes or afternoon tea and cake at the weekend though! 😀

Incorrect. I know LOTS of sugar addicts (and alcoholics) who are quite skinny actually.
With regard to people who are overweight and eat a lot - IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BAD PERSON! Having a big appetite is a physiological glitch NOT A MORAL ONE!

I do wish people would get educated on this topic. I'm so done with weight shaming. People used to shame dyslexics as thick etc etc. Now we know better.
Not so, however, for people who struggle with eating issues. It really pisses me off (can you tel? lol)

A packet of crisps is hardly any calories!

Skinny sugar addicts - so true.
My mum lives on crisps, biscuits and chocolate. The only food she eats is peanut butter on toast and the odd cupasoup, and she is currently a size 8 and the biggest she ever was was a 12.

And when I say lives on, I dont mean nibbles one biscuit and then sucks on a crisp all day. I mean a whole pack of biscuits, a multi pack of crisps and a giant bar of chocolate in one sitting!

AND shes got an underactive thyroid for which shes on meds.

Meanwhile I am on a permanent diet, getting fatter all the time and put on half a stone if I even look at a fucking biscuit.

I swear I'm her fat portrait in the attic. She eats a giant bar of dairy milk and I put 3 pounds on.

same here. Always have dessert. Shocked 😮 to read most don’t!

I don’t, but not for any reason other than that after I’ve eaten my dinner I’m not hungry for anything else.
I do often have something sweet mid afternoon though.

@Error404FucksNotFound Love to see an Oscar Wilde reference!

I think having something small like yoghurt and honey or fruit most days, or a small piece of chocolate perhaps, is normal.

We certainly don’t have “pudding” as such every day, in the sense of cake or anything similar, that might be on a weekend.

But I find that a small sweet thing is good for digestion - might be in my head or a childhood sense of “sweet things come after main food”. For example, I can’t stand the thought of anything sweet when I’m actually hungry, only when I already feel fairly full.

Def not a moral issue. I never said it was. I think we've seen from the 'weight loss jabs' that over eating is usually a hormonal issue, which is why they work. They deal with the hormones. I eat loads of sugary stuff, have a sweet tooth. I don't eat big meals in fact don't much, but do eat lots of sweets. So I am what you say - skinny fat (I think it's called). But people who eat a lot of meals and puddings / cake / ice cream etc, are usually over weight. It's a natural effect of eating too much I suppose. I eat too much sugar and am very unhealthy, but not over weight as I don't eat puddings every day after a meal etc.

They HAVE to be. 'A square of chocolate.' WTAF? 😂

And some days they go wild and have a whole grape. 😆

And a spoonful of jam! 😆

I bet my house that they're not. Many people you know who are thinner/slim will eat a dessert after dinner/eat chocolate, they're just not telling you, because they know you're very judgemental.

😂ok. I / we never talk about food tbh, unless we're eating out and choosing from a menu, but if you think I do that's not a problem for me..

That's interesting because I'm exactly the same.
Never put weight on, I'm the same at 68 as I was at 18. Never dieted, love food but generally eat a big meal in the evening and a pile of ice cream later. Sometimes a muffin as well. Breakfast is coffee, lunch is a salad - leaves with a bit of protein. Loads of water. No snacks during the day and I am starving by 7pm.

I think it's probably because that's how humans are supposed to eat.

Interesting how it's always fine to mock someone who eats a little bit not a lot.

As I've said, I don't eat sweet stuff every day or very often at all but I do keep some of the mini magnum type ice creams in the freezer.

A box of 6 lasts me all summer and I only ever have one at a time.

I don't really care whether anyone believes it or what other people eat but not everyone has a sweet tooth and not everyone needs to have a lot of something when they do. I'm not resisting temptation or depriving myself because I dont want those other things so I'm never tempted by them.

I also have a jar of walnut halves in the kitchen because I have them with my breakfast. If I ever fancy something else after dinner, I'm more likely to have a few of them than I ever am to want crisps, biscuits or chocolate.

I am late to the thread, but no, we don't routinely have anything sweet after dinner.

We have been having ice-cream recently but I want to knock it on the head and get back out of the habit. Usually dinner is around 6.30 and that is the last thing I eat until breakfast.

Yeah I think so, I don't think there was a lot of snacking going on back then and he did quite a physical job. Also it wasn't a typo it was my Granda, which a Scots / Irish way to say Grandfather 😊

As someone who chronically eats far too little, I probably don't have room to talk, but some of the posts on threads like this from competitively under-eating martyrs are hilarious!
A particular favourite was a post from a woman bemused by the fact that a relative cut peas in half before eating them and regularly served herself egg cup sized portions for dinner. Many of the replies were along the lines of
What a Greedy hog! I am stuffed to bursting after a thimble of food!"
Another classic was a thread about omelets. In response to a commenter who mentioned eating a whole two-egg omelet all to themselves, the reactions to such disgusting gluttony were very amusing, claiming that the posters in question would struggle to finish a whole single egg omelet to themselves!
Aside from leaving me unsure why anyone would even bother getting a frying pan out to make an omelet with one egg, I imagined our toddler's great displeasure if I were to present her with such a paltry dish!

Yup. This is Mumsnet. So everyone subsists on the standard “MASSIVE SALAD” (it’s a pile of leaves so no shame in having a COMICALLY HUGE portion), single roast chicken for a week and a nibble of dark chocolate once a year when you remember it’s gathering dust in a kitchen cupboard.

I always have a KitKat or Penguin after dinner.

This also works!

I think we should form a dining club called "Starters Orders" with @JustMeHello

Why do so many people see avoiding sweet things as pious and martyrdom?

If I eat a starter and a main and someone else a main and a pudding, we have both had two courses but one is seen as "being good!" (had this said to me) and the other not. But why? I dont like sweet things, never have, I would much rather have something savoury.

So why is it viewed differently?

Indeed. Some of us just don’t have a sweet tooth. We’re not denying ourselves treats as some act of self abnegation, because that would mean sweet things are a treat in the first place.

If I had to choose between cake and a jar of pickled cucumbers, it’s the latter every time.